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Climate change and the environment KEY TAKEAWAYS G7 members can trigger four key actions to ensure 2-1.5°C is on track Cities, companies and investors are supporting governmental efforts PUTTING THE WORLD ON A 2-1.5 O C PATHWAY G7 members must act immediately to ensure the global temperature rise is kept below 2°C, writes Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Six months after the landmark United Nations climate change agreement in Paris, the world’s richest countries will meet in Ise-Shima, Japan, to take forward these historic outcomes. The G7 members can congratulate each other for the strong political impulse they sent from their last summit, held in Germany in 2015. Their commitment to foster national, low-carbon pathways while supporting decarbonising the global economy was among the positive announcements that lifted the Paris outcome beyond many expectations. Today, the challenge is to translate intent into action and propel the huge momentum that has already been building at a speed and scale that does justice to the extraordinary ambition enshrined in the Paris Agreement, including its two critical temperature goals. Countries across the globe committed to achieve, by the second half of this century, a world where emissions will be low enough to be safely absorbed by the Earth’s nature-based infrastructure such as forests and soils. Specifically they committed to keeping the global temperature rise well under 2°C. They also agreed to pursue efforts to keep that rise at an even safer level of 1.5°C – a lifeline for many vulnerable countries that are already suffering the impacts of climate change. But there is a sobering reality that speaks to urgency not next week, next year or in the next decade, but today. The world has already pumped so much pollution into the atmosphere that many estimate that two-thirds of the space has been ‘used up’. The remaining third may soon be filled unless the emissions curve is swiftly, decisively bent down. Global emissions need to peak by 2020 and decline rapidly thereafter. Delaying transformative action beyond 2030 could imperil even the below-2°C goal, triggering economically damaging extreme weather events and other impacts such as sea-level rise. Urgent need for positive action The G7 members, by virtue of their size and carbon footprint, can play a pivotal role in bringing the Paris Agreement into force as early as possible – at least 55 parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change representing at least 55% of global emissions are needed to do this. Simultaneously, they can use their influence to trigger actions that can put the world firmly onto the 2-1.5°C pathway. First, they can focus → 64 G7 Japan: The Ise-Shima Summit • May 2016 g7g20.com
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